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Rafael Antunes

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Software Engineering student with some experience in Elixir, Phoenix, React, REST APIs, Relational Databases, and more. Currently interested in working with Elixir.

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Features of the Broadway Library

Originally developed for large enterprises, Message Brokers allowed software engineers to break down complex systems into independent services. They would then act as a middleware between those services, effectively decoupling components that previou...

Features of the Broadway Library

What is GenStage?

Assume you're a well-known author signing books at a book signing event. A throng of people has gathered to greet you. Since only one autograph can be done at a time, the organizers let people in one by one. You ask the next person to come forward wh...

What is GenStage?

The Main Benefits of Cloud Computing

In the past, companies and organizations hosted and maintained hardware such as compute, storage, and networking equipment in their own data centers. They needed to allocate entire infrastructure departments to take care of them, resulting in a costl...

The Main Benefits of Cloud Computing

Understanding the "Let It Crash" philosophy

You may have heard of a philosophy associated with Erlang called "Let It Crash". Erlang applications can quickly recover from errors by restarting parts of their system. Elixir also embraces this philosophy. Unfortunately, this approach is also freq...

Understanding the "Let It Crash" philosophy

How LiveView differs from a traditional SPA.

Differently from the traditional Multi-Page-Application, where the entire page needs to be reloaded whenever the user interacts with it, a Single Page Application does not require page reloading during use, it requests the markup and data independent...

How LiveView differs from a traditional SPA.

How Phoenix LiveView handles State

LiveView is an innovative library created for Phoenix which gives us the infrastructure we need to develop interactive, real-time, distributed web apps quickly and easily. LiveView powered applications are stateful on the server with bidirectional c...

How Phoenix LiveView handles State